AMD Ryzen 5 9600X & Ryzen 7 9700X Offer Excellent Linux Performance

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Ryzen 5 9600X & Ryzen 7 9700X Offer Excellent Linux Performance

This could quite well be my simplest review in the past twenty years of Phoronix. The AMD Ryzen 9000 series starting with the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X launching tomorrow are some truly great desktop processors. The generational uplift is very compelling, even in single-threaded Linux workloads shooting ahead of Intel's 14th Gen Core competition, across nearly 400 benchmarks these new Zen 5 desktop CPUs impress, and these new Zen 5 desktop processors are priced competitively. I was already loving the Ryzen 7000 series performance on Linux with its AVX-512 implementation and performing so well across hundreds of different Linux workloads but now with the AMD Ryzen 9000 series, AMD is hitting it out of the ball park. That paired with the issues Intel is currently experiencing for the Intel Core 13th/14th Gen CPUs and the ~400 benchmark results makes this a home run for AMD on the desktop side with only some minor Linux caveats.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-9600x-9700x

[milkylainen]

Yay! Seems they checked before laser etching this time around.

[Anux]

Hu, a small uplift in performance but with the power numbers it looks actually pretty good.

[jcdutton]

Can one also say that no Intel 13/14th Gen CPUs were injured in the making of this test report?

[L_A_G]

Can one also say that no Intel 13/14th Gen CPUs were injured in the making of this test report?

Considering there's quite a few single threaded, memory-heavy benchmarks (the thing that turns out to really kill higher end 13/4th gen Intel) that would be a flat "No".

Well, at least until the microcode update supposed to fix this arrives sometime next week or the week after. It'll be interesting to see how it'll impact performance.

On topic: Apparently other windows-running outlets aren't seeing anywhere near the same performance uplift, one review even having the subtitle "Zen 5 sucks" and another "Wasted opportunity", I'm starting to wonder if windows' scheduler isn't properly recognizing these yet. Still, the performance, and more importantly, efficiency uplift is tempting me to upgrade from my 7700X. Maybe even to a 9900X now that the prices are official.

[flaki]

The sub-watt minimum power of the 8000 series CPUs in this graph, is that a bug/outlier or are those CPUs specifically adept at low-power/idle compared to the others? I wouldn't have thought much of it if it didn't seem consistent across all the 8xxx generation tests.

[avis]

Pricewise these two CPUs make no sense. At the current pricing both 7700X and 7800X3D are much better purchases.

Sadly, AMD has stagnated MT performance wise. Hopefully Zen 6 will introduce new tiers, e.g. Ryzen 5 - 8-10 cores, Ryzen 7 - 12-14 cores, Ryzen 9 - 16-24 cores.

[Isaac Dias]

How about a benchmark performance between Arch Linux and Windoze?

[skeevy420]

On topic: Apparently other windows-running outlets aren't seeing anywhere near the same performance uplift, one review even having the subtitle "Zen 5 sucks" and another "Wasted opportunity", I'm starting to wonder if windows' scheduler isn't properly recognizing these yet. Still, the performance, and more importantly, efficiency uplift is tempting me to upgrade from my 7700X. Maybe even to a 9900X now that the prices are official.

That's because in real world usage and non-synthetic tests they're not that much better aside from power usage where they're outclassed by the 7800X3D. IMHO, they're great if you're upgrading from AM4 but not as great if you're already on AM5 unless you just really want to lower the power usage by 30-50W. If it's an upgrade strictly for less power usage, I'd get a 7800X3D or hold out long enough to see the 9000X3D power usage.

[Anux]

The sub-watt minimum power of the 8000 series CPUs in this graph, is that a bug/outlier or are those CPUs specifically adept at low-power

These are monolithic notebook chips.